Account Of Wrongness Research Articles

THE STATE AND FEDERAL HIGH COURTS’ JURISDICTION OVER BANKER-CUSTOMER DISPUTE FROM THE PRISM OF DECIDED CASES: WHITHER THE MAGISTRATE COURT’S JURISDICTION

The Magistrate Court Law of most States in Nigeria, (including Oyo State) gives themjurisdiction over tortious acts of which detinue is one. Thus, where a bank customer, mistakenly makes an intra or interbank transfers to a wrong account whereof the money is withheld by the bank, and the withheld amountis within the monetary jurisdiction of the Magistrate Court, the customer, usually brings an action in detinue for the bank to release the money to him/her. This is usually donenotwithstanding that both the Supreme Court of Nigeria (SCN) and Court of Appeal (CA) have held that the State and Federal High Courts’ have concurrent jurisdiction over banker-customer disputes.This paper, adopts desk-based method in interrogating the jurisdiction of the Magistrate Court of Oyo State under the Oyo State Magistrate Court Law, 2011 vis-à-vis the jurisdiction of the State and Federal High Courts over banker-customer dispute based on decided cases to determine whether there is any conflict. It argues that the cases in which the SCN and CA have held that the State and Federal High Courts have and exercises concurrent jurisdiction over banker-customer disputes, were decided without reference to the jurisdiction of other equally competent courts including the Magistrate Court of Oyo State (and other States as well).It found that there is not jurisdictional conflict between these courts in relation to banker-customer disputes but symbiotic. The paper makes vital recommendations before concluding.

Crypto Pay: Design of Public Blockchain Platform

Blockchain is a decentralized distributed platform that allows multiple peers to exchange digital assets securely all over the globe without third party. In blockchain, blocks are connected by using hash that maintains the order of transaction. In this paper, a crypto currency transfer in Web 3.0 platform is built based on Ethereum Blockchain to implement decentralized application. This paper is also focused on the latest cutting-edge technology to transfer funds easily and very efficiently and quickly. The working model can solve issues regarding many spheres of the multiverse and can be connected to transfer real cryptocurrency anywhere across the globe. The main uniqueness of the model that it offers to its users with full trustiness and curb the wrong uses of third parties to control any transactions of Web 2.0, especially tracking or hacking sites or data servers and block any transactions and transact money into a wrong account. Here, the transaction is verified, decentralized, and secured where no third party is involved in the process actively and no personal logged data is required. Each transaction can be seen and matched by the address stored on the transaction site of Ethereum. This research paper concludes with the implemented methodology for creation, deployment on Ethereum, blockchain, and interaction of smart contract using ReactJS, EthersJS, alchemy API and hardhat. Just people need to understand the appropriate usage of Cryptocurrency transactions using virtual wallets.

Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special, by Thom Scott-Phillips

Speaking Our Minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special , by Thom Scott-Phillips, Palgrave MacMillan (2014), 212 pp, £24.99. Language evolution is a notoriously complex problem. As such, the central topic of how and why language evolved tends to split into a number of questions that are often tackled separately. Why are humans the only species to have such a complex communication system? How were the first communicative conventions established, and how did they develop into languages that take on the forms we observe? What explains our motivation to communicate, and what pressures allow language to remain evolutionarily stable? In Speaking Our Minds , Thom Scott-Phillips offers an account that aims to address all of these questions. The central argument is that language is made possible by an evolutionarily novel form of communication that is uniquely human: ostensive-inferential communication. In this form of communication, signallers provide evidence for their intentions, and receivers interpret this evidence to infer the meaning the signaller intends to convey. This ability relies on sophisticated forms of social cognition which, in turn, arose in our species as a consequence of selection pressure for the ability to better track others’ intentions, as the size and complexity of social groups increased. Scott-Phillips marshals a broad range of evidence in support of this view, from non-human primate communication to the creation, learning and use of artificial languages by human participants in the lab. An unstated assumption in both mainstream and evolutionary linguistics is that language is fundamentally a code, enriched and made flexible by our inferential abilities. The key insight underpinning the book is that this mainstream view is wrong. Specifically, it is backwards. Ostensive-inferential communication makes language possible, and the conventional codes we are able to create as a result make it flexible and productive. This is not just a terminological quibble. The implication is that the traditional view rests on a mechanistically wrong account … casilvey{at}uchicago.edu

H4: A challenging system for natural orbital functional approximations.

The correct description of nondynamic correlation by electronic structure methods not belonging to the multireference family is a challenging issue. The transition of D(2h) to D(4h) symmetry in H4 molecule is among the most simple archetypal examples to illustrate the consequences of missing nondynamic correlation effects. The resurgence of interest in density matrix functional methods has brought several new methods including the family of Piris Natural Orbital Functionals (PNOF). In this work, we compare PNOF5 and PNOF6, which include nondynamic electron correlation effects to some extent, with other standard ab initio methods in the H4 D(4h)/D(2h) potential energy surface (PES). Thus far, the wrongful behavior of single-reference methods at the D(2h)-D(4h) transition of H4 has been attributed to wrong account of nondynamic correlation effects, whereas in geminal-based approaches, it has been assigned to a wrong coupling of spins and the localized nature of the orbitals. We will show that actually interpair nondynamic correlation is the key to a cusp-free qualitatively correct description of H4 PES. By introducing interpair nondynamic correlation, PNOF6 is shown to avoid cusps and provide the correct smooth PES features at distances close to the equilibrium, total and local spin properties along with the correct electron delocalization, as reflected by natural orbitals and multicenter delocalization indices.

On the distance to cataclysmic variables. SS Cygni

It is shown that the distance to the dwarf nova SS Cyg, determined from measurements at the Hubble Space Telescope is overstated by about a half. The reason for this is a wrong account of the interstellar extinction, which is very heterogeneous in this region.

Utilitarianism without Consequentialism: The Case of John Stuart Mill

This essay argues, flouting paradox, that Mill was a utilitarian but not a consequentialist. First, it contends that there is logical space for a view that deserves to be called utilitarian despite its rejection of consequentialism; second, that this logical space is, in fact, occupied by John Stuart Mill. The key to understanding Mill's unorthodox utilitarianism and the role it plays in his moral philosophy is to appreciate his sentimentalist metaethics—especially his account of wrongness in terms of fitting guilt and resentment. Mill recognizes a fundamental moral asymmetry between the agent and others, which conflicts intractably with a presupposition of consequentialism. This allows him to differentiate three potentially conflicting evaluative spheres: morality, prudence, and aesthetics. This essay's account of Mill's utilitarianism coheres with his defense of individual liberty and his embrace of supererogation, both of which elude traditional interpretations.

II–Jonathan Dancy

My first four sections concentrate on the second section of Professor Scanlon's contribution (hereafter IP ), where he lays out his conception of moral principles and of the role they play in theory and practice. I will raise questions on the following issues: 1. Scanlon's initial introduction of the notion of a principle. 2. His rejection of the standard view that principles are concerned with the forbidding, permitting and requiring of actions. 3. His rejection of pro tanto conceptions of principles in favour of a conception of them as conclusive. 4. The resulting account of what it is for a principle to face and survive exceptions. Scanlon's discussion of these matters here both appeals to and is in some respects more detailed than the relevant section of his recent What We Owe to Each Other (hereafter WWO ). The topic is interesting both for the role played by principles in Scanlon's present discussion of intention and permissibility, and more generally because of his account of wrongness: an act is wrong iff it is ruled out by principles that nobody could reasonably reject. The remainder of my contribution is concerned with the ostensible focus of IP , namely the relevance (if any) of agent-intentions to the permissibility of what is done.